Chickasaw County MsArchives Military Records.....CCriddle, Mary Ann August 15, 1910
Civilwar - Pension 
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Jackie Rhodes chick_chock_web@yahoo.com February 16, 2006, 10:28 am

Widow's Pension, Form 6
The following information transcribed from Pension Applications on file at the
Chickasaw Co Courthouse, Houston, MS. Actual applications copied and transcribed
by Jackie Rhodes..

APPPLICATION OF MARY ANN CRIDDLE:

PENSION APPLICATION
Chickasaw County
Name of Applicant
Mary Ann Criddle
Post-Office
Okolona, Miss.
No. of Application (blank)
Form No. 6
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CHANCERY CLERK:
No application will be entertained unless made on the proper form and every
blank in the form properly filled out.

PENSIONERS now on the LIST are NOT required to make new applications, but the
CHANCERY CLERK
must certify their names to the Auditor of Public Accounts.

THIS APPLICATION
Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the First Monday in Septermer.
(no application will be entertained not on the printed form)

FORM NO. 6
(GENERAL PROBATE CLASS)
APPLICATION for Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy
Under Chapter 102, Code of 1906

Applicant must make Answer to all of the following Questions and have ity
written out Plainly in Ink.

Q. What is your name?  Answer: Mary Ann Criddle
Q. What is your age? Answer: 65
Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of Mississippi? Answer: yes
Q. How long have you resided in Misissippi? Answer: All my life
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer: Chickasaw
Q. What is the name of your post office? Answer: Houston, Miss.
Q. What was your husband's name? Answer: Richard Griffin
Q. When were you married? Answer 1864
Q. In what State and county did he reside when he enlisted in the service of the
Confederate States? Answer: The State of Mississippi,
       Chickasaw County
Q. What was the date of his enlistment? Answer: March 1862
Q. What was the name of the company and regiment or vessel in which he enlosted?
Answer: Company C, 31st Mississippi Reg.
Q. How long was he in the actual service of the Confederace? Answer: 2 years
Q. What were the names of the officers of the company, or regiment, or vessel,
furing the time he was in the service? Answer: Capt. T. J.
       Pulliam, 1st Lieut Ben Pulliam, 2nd Lieut J. T. Pulliam, 3rd L:ieut W. B.
Caridine
Q. Did he die in service or did he serve till close of the war? Answer: died in
Service
Q. Was he honorably discharged? Answer: (blank)
Q. When was he discharged? Answer: (blank)
Q. Where was he discharged? Answer: (blank)
Q. Did he serve until the surrender? Answer: No
Q. When did he die? Answer: Chickasaw County, Mississippi
Q. What regiment or vessel did your husband belong to at the time of his death?
Answer: 31st Mississippi Reg/
Q. The name of the commander? Answer: Col. J. A. Orr
Q. What company did your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer:
Company C
Q. Who was the captain of the ompany? Answer: Capt T. J. Pulliam
Q. When did he die? Answer: 1864
Q. Have you married since your husband's death? Answer: Yes
Q. Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn a
livelihood? Answer: Yes
Q. Do you hold and State, United States, County or City office from whicy you
are receiving as salary or fees the sum of three hundred dollars
       per annum? Answer: No
Q. Have you any property in your own right? Answer: No
Q. What is the true, just and correct value? Answer: (blank)
Q. Have you a home of your own? Answer: No
Q. If not, with whom do you now live? Answer: a daughter
Q. Is the person you are now living with a relation? Answer: Yes
Q. If so, what relation? Answer: a Daughter
Q. Have you any relations; if so, what relation? Answer: I have brothers &
sisters and children
Q. Have you any relations or connections whose legal or moral duty it is to
provide for you? Answer: No

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 15th day of August A.D. 1910
Joe L. Davis, Circuit Clerk                              Mary Ann Criddle
( Signature of Officer)                                         (Signature of
Applicant)

    "I, Mary Ann Crittle, widow of Richard Griffin, do solemnly swear (or
affirm) that I am a widow of a Confederate soldier or sailor, who was
honorably discharged or paoled, or who did not desert the Confederate service
(as the case may be); that I was married to him prior to the first day of
Januarty, 1875; that I reside in this State; that I am indigent and unable to
earn a support; that I have no relatives, able, whose duty it is to support me;
that I do not own property to the value of four hundred dollars ($400) and that
I have not conveyed any property to anyone with a view to drawing a pension, so
help me God."

Sworn to and subscribed before me this                                         
                         (Signature of Pensioner) Mary Annn Ciddle
15th day of August, 1910                                                       
                                    Joe L. Davis, Circuit Clerk

(NOTE: Name in the above statement reads Mary Ann Crittle...apparently was
written by the clerk since the handwriting does not match the signature of
pensioner Mary Ann Criddle)

AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES
       We, the undersigned, verily believe the fatct stated in the above
application to be true and the applicant to be the identical person named in the
said application.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 15th day of                            
           D. M. Turman
August A. D. 1910                                                              
                             (Signature of Witness)
Joe L. Davis, Circuit Clerk                                                    
                          S. W. Williams
(Signature of Officer)                                                         
                                (Signature of Witness)

                                                                               
  Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry Chickasaw County
                                                                               
   Houston, Miss    Sept 5, 1910

       We, the undersigned, members of the Board of Inquiry, hereby APPROVE the
foegoing application of Mary Ann Criddle for pension, because we know the
applicant to be indigent and unable to earn a livelihood, and that we believe
the facts stated in the above application are true and the party should recieve
the pension.

       Given under our hands and seals of office, this 5 day of Sept 1910.
______________________
(President of Board)   
J. A. Lewis               (Seal)
J. L. Pulliam             (Seal)
W. D. Reid               (Seal)
W. M. Buchanan     (Seal)
W. E. Brannon        (Seal)
(Chancery Clerk)          
(Affixed along the left side og the sworn statement is the following:)
ATTEST:

Wl E. Brannan, Chancery Clerk
(Attach Seal of office)

       N. B.--If the Board approves this application, the Chancery Clerk will so
certify, after recordg in a name in a book kept for that purpose, and forward
all of the approved applications in a body (not one at a time) to the Auditor's
office by the first day of October.

       No application forwarded after that time will be received.
       Rejected applications should not be forwarded to this office.
                                      



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